Description
Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013Sensitively updated and revised for modern practice, Anthony Storr's legendary work continues to be an indispensible introductory text for aspiring psychotherapists.Professor Jeremy Holmes, a friend and colleague of Anthony Storr's and himself a leading psychotherapist, has updated this accessible and h
Table of Contents
The setting. The initial interview. Getting going: overcoming initial resistance. Making progress. Interpretation. Dreams, daydreams and creativity. The nature of the therapeutic relationship: boundaried intimacy. Transference and counter-transference. Diagnosis and psychodynamic formulation. Depression. Anxiety. Patterns of personality. The science of psychotherapy. The end of therapy. The life and work of a psychotherapist. Epilogue: Beyond therapy.
